Midwest Cork roadbed centerline

[nickelplate759]

I know there have been lots of roadbed topics - here's one that I haven't found.  Midwest cork roadbed splits off-center (this isn't new, of course).  When you separate the two pieces, one is wider than the other.  So - if you glue them down along your track centerline, it will be off-center, and if you lay your track along it's centerline, the track will be off-center on the roadbed.  I can adjust for all this of course - the question is, should I bother?   I'd like to know what others do.

[CBQ Fan]

I don't adjust for it. I just use the centerline.  With the smooth cut placed to the viewing angle and the ruff cut side to backside or center of a double tracked mainline.

[Chris333]

Well before I lay any track down on cork I spend a lot of time sanding it down and rounding off the rough edges.

[Rossford Yard]

Hadn't given it much thought, since I use flex, and don't have any perfectly specific radius.  I did note that around my wye, things got a might skewed off center, and maybe this was the reason.....or, I laid the track out just off what the actual geometry might do.

I suppose you could lay to the right or left edge, depending, just covering the sharpie line. When it disappears, put the narrower side down on the other side.

[jpwisc]

Midwest cork is too wide compared to most prototype subroadbeds. I used to cut the wide side down 3/16" to get a better width. Now I just cut my own roadbed from sheet cork. That way I get what I want and it is cheaper.

Either wa I sand the cork with a palm sander and wrasp the shoulders so they don't prodrude through the ballast later.